Joanna Carl

Book List

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16titles

From the bestselling author of "The Chocolate Clown Corpse," it s murder, my sweet, for a chocolatier whose love of old crime films plunges her into a real-life murder where the motives aren t so black and white The Warner Pier tourism board is kicki...

Revenge is sweet for a killer on the loose--and it all started with the murder of Warner Pier's most hated clown.... Everyone who knew the bozo wanted him dead. Odd, then, that a complete stranger was accused of bursting Moe Davidson's balloons. But...

When it turns out a member of Warner Pier's library board has been living on borrowed time, Lee is determined to discover who wrote the victim's final chapter...
Running TenHuis Chocolade keeps Lee McKinney Woodyard busy enough, but now she's been...

When Lee hires a free-spirited employee with a tie-dyed, troubled past, she discovers that even the counter-culture can conceal a killer…
As much as the chocolate concoctions at TenHuis can tantalize people’s tongues, Lee’s newest hire is m...

Lee McKinney Woodyard discovers a dusty trophy inside TenHuis Chocolade that belongs to her aunt Nettie and her old high school singing group, the Pier-O-Ettes. It's a trophy that brings back terrible memories of an unsolved murder years ago.
Befo...

Ever since Young Blackbeard became the biggest movie of the decade, everyone has caught pirate fever, including the residents of Warner Pier. TenHuis Chocolade is raking in the booty and selling out of chocolate treasure chests, pirate hats and ships...

When Lee McKinney Woodyard finds that her on liqueur bottle was used as a murder weapon, there's no sugarcoating it: Someone in Varner Pier is not as cordial as Lee would like...
TenHuis Chocolade is wall-to-wall hearts -- mostly chocolate -- for Va...

The luxury chocolate business isn't always sweet, but Lee McKinney Woodyard tries to draw the line at Cold-blooded Murder.
The much anticipated Winter Arts Festival is here in the west Michigan town of Warner Pier. As treasurer of WinterFest, Lee is...

DIAMONDS IN THE ROUGH
Lee and Joe are newlyweds, but you wouldn't know it. Joe works late, and Lee has a major crisis when the air-conditioning goes out in TenHuis Chocolade. Then the houseguests from hell arrive: Lee's boy-crazy stepsister, a sal...

SOMETHING OLD, SOMETHIING ASKEW
Caught up in a whirl of champagne and china patterns, bride-to-be Lee McKinney has butted heads with her future mother-in-law over every detail of the wedding bash. The last thing she needs is trouble with her own m...

CORNY E-MAILS ARE MADDENING...BUT CAN THEY LEAD TO MURDER?
Chocolate-shop manager Lee McKinney is so tired of "inspirational" e-mails from party planner Julie Singletree that she's ready to strangle her with the cord of her own computer mouse. But...

BARKS AND BITES
The lakeside town of Warner Pier, Michigan, is tickled pinker than a strawberry truffle. Flashy Aubrey Andrews Armstrong has just swept into town, dropping celebrity names and claiming he's an independent Hollywood producer. For hi...

CHOCOLATE CHICANERY
The quaint resort town of Warner Pier, Michigan, is abuzz with preparations for the Fourth of July. Things are going swimmingly for Lee McKinney and her aunt Nettie, as they debut their latest confections at TenHuis Chocolade--...

CONFESSIONS OF A CONFECTIONER
After leaving her bad-new husband back in Texas, Lee McKinney moved up north to a quaint resort town. Now she keeps the books for her aunt's luxury chocolate shops. But Lee soon finds that Michigan winters can be murder...

ENJOY THE GUILT
After giving up her career as a Texas trophy wife, Lee McKinney finds herself in a Michigan resort town, keeping the books for her aunt Nettie's luxury chocolate business. But she soon discovers that her new life isn't all truffles...

WHAT I SOLVED ON MY SUMMER VACATION.
Detectives make their reputations solving cases of murder and mayhem. Ever wonder what happens when they try to get away from it all?
In this summertime crime spree, twenty of today's best mystery writers--f...